John Hurt

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Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned more than 50 years. Hurt rose to fame as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966) and received BAFTA Award nominations for his roles as Timothy Evans in the television film The Naked Civil Servant (1975) – his first BAFTA nomination for the latter.

In the BBC TV series I, Claudius (1976), he appeared Caligula.

Hurt's appearance in the prison drama Midnight Express (1978) brought him international prominence and the BAFTA and BAFTA awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination.

A scene in which an alien creature burst out of his chest was released by his BAFTA-nominated astronaut Kane in science-fiction horror Alien (1979) yielded a scene in which an alien creature burst out of his chest.

Many publications have rated it as one of the most memorable moments in cinema history, as Joseph Merrick in David Lynch's biopic The Elephant Man (1980).

Bob Champion in biopic Champions (1984), Mr. Braddock in Stephen Frears' drama The Hit (1984), and Stephen Ward in the drama depicting the Profumo affair, Scandal (1989).

Hurt was nominated again by the BAFTA for his work in Irish drama The Field (1990) and he played James Graham, the main villain in Rob Roy (1995).

His later films include the Harry Potter film series (2001–11), the Hellboy films (2004 and 2008), and the Sci Fi Fi Fiery film The Prosecutors (2006), a periodical thriller The Prosecutors of Vendetta (2005), political thriller The Prosecutors of Vendetta (2004), western thriller In 2006, Tinker Soldier Spy (2011).

Hurt regained his role as Quentin Crisp in An Englishman in New York (2009), earning his seventh BAFTA nomination.

In 2013, HURT's War Doctor was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors; director David Lynch referred to him as "simply the greatest actor in the country."

He had what was described as the "most distinctive voice in the United Kingdom," according to The Observer's "nicotine sieved through grit, moonlit gravel."

His voice acting career spanned films including Watership Down (1978), The Lord of the Rings (1978), The Fire of the Rings (1982), The Black Cauldron (1985) and Dogville (2006), as well as BBC TV series Merlin (2008–2012).

In 2012, he was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Award in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to cinema."

In 2015, he was honoured for his contributions to drama.

Early life

Hurt was born John Vincent Hurt in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 1980–1975), an engineer and one-time actress, and Arnold Herbert Hurt (1904–1999), a mathematician who served as vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, Derbyshire. His father was formerly vicar of St John's parish in Sunderland, County Durham. He and his family immigrated to Derbyshire in 1937, where he became the Perpetua Curate of Holy Trinity Church. Hurt's father was a child of St Stephen's Church in Woodville, Derbyshire, and he continued there until 1953.

Hurt was sent by the Anglican St Michael's Preparatory School in Otford, Kent, where he later discovered his passion for acting. After his first appearance as a girl in Maurice Maeterlinck's school production The Blue Bird, he decided to become an actor. Hurt said he and others would abuse him and others by removing his two false front teeth and sticking their tongue in the boys' mouths, as well as rubbing their faces with his stubble, and that the experience harmed him greatly. Hurt, a 12-year-old boy, started attending Lincoln School (then a grammar school) because he failed the entrance examination for admission to his brother's kindergarten. As Hurt told him he wanted to be an actor, he reacted angrily. "Well, you may be fine in school plays, but you wouldn't stand a chance in this field."

Hurt's father migrated to St Aidan's Church in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. Hurt claims that the family lived in a vicarage opposite a theater, but that films were "frowned upon." However, watching theatre was deemed "fine" and encouraged particularly by his mother, who took him regularly to the repertory theatre in Cleethorpes. His parents disapproved of his son's later acting ambitions and encouraged him to become an art teacher instead. Hurt, 17, attended Grimsby Art School (now the East Coast School of Art and Design), where he studied art. He received a scholarship in 1959 that enabled him to study for an Art Teacher's Diploma at Saint Martin's School of Art in London. Despite the scholarship, paying his tuition fees and living expenses was prohibitive, he persuaded some of his acquaintances to pose naked and sell the portraits. In 1960, he was awarded a scholarship to RADA, where he spent two years.

Personal life

Br. Hurt was the older brother of Hurt. Anselm (born Michael), a Roman Catholic convert who became a monk and writer at Glenstal Abbey, was responsible for his brother's books. Monica was Hurt's adopted sister. Hurt's father left his congregation in Cleethorpes in 1962 to become the headmaster of St Michael's College in the United States' Central American nation of British Honduras. Hurt's mother died in 1975 and his father died in 1999 at the age of 95.

In 1962, Hurt married actress Annette Robertson. In 1964, the marriage took place. He began his longest friendship with Marie-Lise Volpeliere-Pierrot, a French model, in 1967. After 15 years together, the couple wanted to marry. Hurt and Volpeliere-Pierrot rodeted early in the morning outside their Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, and Volpeliere-Pierrot was thrown off her horse early in the morning. She went into a coma and died later that day.

Hurt married Donna Peacock, an American actress, at a local Register Office in September 1984. The couple married in Kenya but then separated in January 1990.

Hurt married Joan Dalton, an American production assistant who had appeared on Scandal while filming Scandal, on January 24, 1990. He had two sons with her. This marriage ended in 1996 and was followed by a seven-year relationship with Sarah Owens, a Dublin-born presenter and writer. The couple married in County Wicklow, where they spent time with their cousin, director John Boorman, and Guinness heir Garech Browne. The couple separated in July 2002. Hurt married Anwen Rees-Meyers, an advertising film director, in March 2005. During his fourth marriage, he quit smoking and alcohol. He lived in Cromer, Norfolk.

Hurt appeared on BBC genealogical television series Who Do You Think You Are? in 2007, which looked at a portion of his family's past. Hurt had a love of Ireland and was enthrased by a "deeply beguiling" family legend who said that his great-grandmother had been the illegitimate daughter of a Marquess of Sligo prior to the program. The genealogical evidence uncovered seemed to contradict the family's legend, causing the suggestion to be skeptical. His great-grandmother had lived in Grimsby for at least a mile away from the art college, where Hurt had been a student.

Hurt said in 2016 that he favoured the United Kingdom's decision to remain in the EU.

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Career

Hurt's first film, The Wild and the Willing (1962) and TV's Gideon's Way episode: The Tin God (1964) as prison escapee Freddy Tisdale, but his first major role was as Richard Rich in A Man for All Seasons (1966). Timothy Evans, who was sentenced for murders committed by his landlord John Christie in ten Rillington Place (1971), earning him his first BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor. Quentin Crisp's appearance in the television drama The Naked Civil Servant (1975) gave him a lot of attention and earned him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.

In the Sweeney episode Tomorrow Man, Hurt appeared as Anthony John Grey, a crooked computer programmer. In the BBC drama series I, Claudius, he received more accolades for his bravura role as the Roman emperor Caligula. Hurt's initial interview in a much later documentary about the series, I Claudius: A Television Epic (2004), revealed that he declined the role at first glance, but that production manager Herbert Wise had invited him to a special pre-production party in the hopes of a change of direction, and that he was so moved by meeting the cast and crew that he retold his decision and assumed the part.

Hurt appeared in the 1978 film Midnight Express, for which he received a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award as well as a Best Supporting Actor (the latter of which he lost to Christopher Walken for his role in The Deer Hunter). He lent his voice to Ralph Bakshi's animated film adaptation of Lord of the Rings, playing Aragorn. In the film version of Watership Down (both 1978) and later played the major villain, General Woundwort. He received another BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actor after deformed Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man (1980).

Kane, the first survivor of the film Alien (1979), was also cast in Sam Peckinpah's critically panned but moderately successful final film, The Osterman Weekend (1983). He appeared in King Lear (1983), as the Fool opposite Laurence Olivier's King. In a BBC television version of Crime and Punishment (1979), Hurt appeared as Raskolnikov.

Hurt played Snitter in The Plague Dogs (1984) and starred in Disney's The Horned King (1985), portraying the film's key antagonist, the Horned King. Hurt played the voiceover in Jim Henson's television film AIDS: Iceberg/Tombstone, a 1986 public information film alerting of the dangers of AIDS, and he appeared in AIDS' story narrator. In Jim Sheridan's film The Field (1990), he received his second BAFTA nomination and was depicted as the reclusive tycoon S.R., who had a supporting role as "Bird" O'Donnell. Hadden in Contact (1997). Hurt gave a preview of Art of Noise's concept album The Seduction of Claude Debussy (1999), as well as a four-part TV series The Universe (1999).

He played Mr Ollivander, the wand-maker, in Harry Potter's first Harry Potter film, "The Philosopher's Stone (2001). His scenes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were cut, but he was back for the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire version. Part 1 and Part 2 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He appeared in the 2006 film V for Vendetta, as Adam Sutler, the founder of the Norsefire fascist draconian tyrant regime, and in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) as Harold Oxley.

In the BBC television series Merlin (also 2008), he portrayed the Great Dragon Kilgharrah, who supports the young warlock Merlin as he shields the future King Arthur. He narrated Planet Dinosaur, the first dinosaur-centred documentary to be entirely shown via CGI in 2011.

Hurt resurrecting Quentin Crisp's role in the 2009 film An Englishman in New York, more than 30 years since. Crisp's later years in New York are depicted in this television film. He returned to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as the on-screen Big Brother for the Paper Zoo Theatre Company's stage adaptation of the novel in June 2009. The premiere of the theatre performance at the National Media Museum in Bradford debuted in 1998 and toured throughout 2010. "I think Paper Zoo thought it would be very strange to have the person who played Winston having risen in the party," Hurt said. He's managed to recollect his wits again from the Chestnut Tree Café, now knowing that 2 and 2 make 5, and that Big Brother is approaching. It tickled my interest, and I checked out Paper Zoo, which seems to be the kind of firm that's vital in the country as we know it, and doing a lot of good stuff."

Hurt received the accolade for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema at the 65th British Academy Film Awards. Hurt appeared in Doctor Who as a "forgotten" version of the Doctor, also known as the War Doctor. His character first appears in the series seven finale "The Name of the Doctor"; he appears in the mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor"; he resurfaces in Big Finish Productions' "The Day of the Doctor"; he appeared in a series of audio stories from 2015 to 2017, totaling twelve episodes out of four box sets. In an audio drama version of The Invisible Man for the company, he also appeared as the title character, for which he was nominated for a BBC Audio Drama Award.

Hurt was scheduled to appear alongside Adam Driver in Terry Gilliam's eighth attempt to make his development hell project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. However, the project was ultimately ended by Jonathan Pryce due to his declining health and potential death; rather, it was cancelled again;

Hurt was supposed to appear alongside Ben Kingsley in a film titled Broken Dream, directed by Neil Jordan. Hurt appeared in the Thomas & Friends film Legend of the Lost Treasure in 2015, as well as Eddie Redmayne (Ryan) and Jamie Campbell Bower (Skiff). He had completed filming That Good Night, in which he played a terminally ill writer, at the time of his death. In the Darkest Hour, Hurt was first seen as former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Hurt was undergoing pancreatic cancer therapy and was unable to attend the read-throughs, according to Gary Oldman; actor Ronald Pickup replaced him as Chamberlain; Hurt died from cancer in January 2017.

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